Author: Steamed buns
Statement: Soldiers say original, plagiarism will be investigated
I don't know if it is for the reasons of the needs of the plot, or for other reasons, in the anti-Japanese film and television dramas, the role of female officers of the Japanese army often appears.
In fact, during World War II, except for the soviet army, which recruited a large number of women to join the army due to the extreme shortage of soldiers,
In the Armies of Germany, Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom, women essentially served as nurses, civilians, and rear support personnel in the military, and there were few female servicemen who fought directly.
During World War II, more than 2,000 Female Soviet Snipers participated in the war, and female soldiers served as pilots and even tankers, but most of them were war support personnel, and it was not the main body that directly participated in the battle.
The reason why the Japanese army did not have female soldiers directly participate in the war was that it was physically and psychologically difficult for female soldiers to adapt to the brutal and violent front-line battles, and the second was because Japan's patriarchal ideology since ancient times was deeply rooted, and the status of women was low, and women were not allowed to participate.
The laws promulgated in the second year of Showa in Japan stipulate that
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The men of the Imperial subjects performed military service in accordance with the perverse law
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。 Although it was revised many times later, it has only required men to perform military service, and no requirements have been made for women, which is also an important reason why Japan is a very young soldier.
Although Japanese women did not directly participate in the war, in a specific historical environment, there were a large number of fanatical women who directly and indirectly supported the japanese military's aggressive acts. For example, in the Japanese women's circles, there are a number of organizations that support the war, two of which are notorious, namely the "Patriotic Women's Association" and the "National Defense Women's Association".
The duties of these women who joined the association were to beautify the war of aggression, to send off the soldiers who "went out on the expedition", to collect condolences, to comfort the wounded soldiers and the families of the soldiers, and to encourage their families, including their husbands and sons, to join the army and participate in the war.
The most famous of these is the Osaka Infantry Division
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Squadron Lieutenant Seiichi Inoue's wife Chiyoko Inoue, in order to get her husband
Wholeheartedly throw yourself into the war of aggression against China
He even committed suicide by cutting his wrists.
[The picture above is Chiyoko Inoue.] Under the temptation of military ideology, at the age of 21, he chose to cut his wrists, so that his husband could "put down his worries and participate in the war".
The Japanese media trumpeted Chiyoko Inoue as a big fan
A role model for Japanese women
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Retsujo Showa
, the alma mater Kishiwada Higher Girls' School was held for it
Consolation Offering
and made a movie of its deeds and shown it to the Japanese army,
Strengthen its will to war
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Poster of the "Women of Defense Women's Society". The actions of these Japanese women can be said to be participants in the war of aggression against China.
At the same time, the "Women's Association for National Defense" also invested in wartime military production and food preparation, material recovery, etc., so as to alleviate the lack of labor force in Japan due to the war, and also let more men participate in the war. These Japanese women even feel "extremely honored" to be able to refuel Japan's "special attack aircraft."
In 1942, Japan's "Patriotic Women's Association", "United Women's Association" and "National Defense Women's Association" were merged, and as many as 10 million women joined the association, while in 1945, when Japan called for a "decisive battle on the mainland", the number reached 20 million, and basically 90% of all women in Japan participated in it.
It is worth mentioning that in addition to the "Patriotic Women's Association", on the eve of the Battle of Okinawa in March 1945, 222 female students and 18 female teachers of the Women's Department of the No. 1 Girls' School and okinawa Normal School in Okinawa Prefecture were requisitioned by the Japanese army in Okinawa to form the "Hime Yuri Unit" to help doctors take care of the wounded, transport food, and pass on information.
On June 18, 1945, the Japanese army abandoned these female students and disbanded Himeyuri's troops, leaving them to "make a living for themselves." Where are these untrained women capable of surviving a brutal war? In the first two days after the dissolution, more than 100 people died in the fire of the US army, and many more died of suicide, burned alive by the US military flamethrower, and only 1 teacher and 5 students survived.
After the japanese surrender, in order to please the American occupation forces, Japan actually established the RAA Association (Special Comfort Facilities Association) to let Japanese women provide "services" to American soldiers. As more and more U.S. troops were stationed in Japan, Japan began to openly recruit comfort women. At its peak, there were 60,000 women in "service work" in Japan. And these women, the fate is quite tragic. The women are imprisoned in the house, and outside the door are American soldiers chewing gum in line, and the maximum number of "pick-ups" is 60 people a day!
[Deeply cultivate the history of war, carry forward positive energy, soldiers say that all parties are welcome to submit articles]